ip rule with fwmark not working in 2.6.31?

Konstantinos Agouros a écrit :

<http://www.spinics.net/lists/netfil...9.html>

If reverse path filtering is enabled (sysctl
net.ipv4.conf.<interface>.rp_filter=1), try to disable it for both "all"
and the involved interfaces.

I already fell back to 2.6.30 but will try in a VM if this is the issue
but it would make perfect sense, as the behaviour described in the link
matches perfectly what I have seen here. Was there a change in 2.6.31
on the default setting of this parameter?

Not AFAIK. But some distribution startup scripts may modify it, e.g.
through /etc/sysctl.conf (as a remainder, note that the current value
and changes of net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter are applied to newly
created and existing inactive, i.e. not UP, interfaces).

As I wrote in the last message of the thread, the change was in the way
net.ipv4.conf.<interface>.rp_filter and net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter are
combined to produce the functional value. It was a logical AND,
requiring that both are set to enable the feature on <interface>, and
became an arithmetic MAX, requiring that either is set to enable the
feature on <interface>. As a result, if only one is set, then changing
from kernel 2.6.30 to kernel 2.6.31 changes the functional behaviour.